Sigmund Freud Quotes
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The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.
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In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
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Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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If you can't do it, give up!
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
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A strong egoism is a protection.
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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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The world is no nursery.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.